Author's Note: Hi. Me again. Here's another chapter Enjoy... and review. :-)

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Chapter 13: Capture and Escape

After quite some time, Samantha woke up. Everything around her was blurry at first. And since the cave was dark, she could barely see anything.

She sat up with a moan but the pain in her head was too much to bear at the moment so she held her head and flopped back down on the ground. The world around her seemed to be spinning. Her head was, once again, in serious pain. It was like someone had hit her in the head with a paddle...

She laid there for the longest time, trying to rememeber where she was and what had happened. When she finally did remember where she was, she played her final moments before she blacked out over and over in her head.

Fisrt she was dragged away from Will by Jack. Then the two went to a small opening and looked out at the pirates from the Pearl. And the last thing she remembered was hearing Jack next to her grunt loudly and fall and then she herself falling down to the ground.

So where was Jack? She sat up quickly, not caring any longer about her throbbing migraine. She looked around for Jack but he was no where to be found. As a matter of fact, there wasn't anyone to be found. She was alone. Completely alone. The silence of the cold cave was frightening. Perhaps that's because the pirates, including Jack, had gone back to the ship already and she woke up before they even knew she was there.

She stood up and looked around. She felt disoriented and lost in the big cave. As she walked around, she would hear, every once in a while, a noise, like someone walking around or moving things.

Her anger turned to absolute rage as she began to mull over in her head that Jack (and Will, but she had almost completely forgot about him) left her there all by herself. She was so hurt that he (or they) would just abandon her like that. Finally, after a while of sulking around the corridors of the cave, she sat down on a rock and glared around at her unfriendly surroundings.

"I hate this!" She yelled. "Why do things like this always happen to me! First, I'm almost killed by British soldiers! Then I hit my head and almost fall off a boat. And THEN I get hit in the head again and now I'm just left here by that idiot Sparrow!" Her voice kept getting higher and higher until it was almost a scream.

"Wait. Complaining will get you no where, Sammi." She said softly, trying to comfort herself.

She stopped talking to herself for a moment when the sounds that she heard earlier became louder and more frequent. Someone really was moving things and walking around... and it was getting closer. She was definitely not alone in the cave.

Samantha jumped up and scrambled away and she practically dove behind a large rock just before three pirates came around the corner. Samantha caught parts of their conversation as they walked by.

"...you hear that?"

"...aye...moving around..."

"...someone else might be here..."

"...should go look..."

And they continued on their way.

Their conversation was brief but Samantha gathered that they knew that SOMEONE (meaning her) was there.

Samantha was completely at a loss for what to do now. She was still sitting on the ground considering her next move. But what move could she make? She was in a cave on a very small island with no company other then some rats and a few pirates and she couldn't think of any other way to get off the island than to swim. But that didn't seem to logical. If she didn't drown she would be a pretty little sharky's lunch... or dinner, depending what time it was.

She sat there for the longest time going over all of this. At that very moment, she felt that she would truly die on the island. If she wasn't going to die from being killed by pirates or starving to death, she knew she would die from the unbearable, nauseating pain in her head.

It had been almost and hour and she was close to falling asleep when she heard something. Once more, it sounded like someone was coming.

She shook her head for a moment and stood up, hoping to be out of there before whoever it was came along. She rubbed her eyes as she turned around. Samantha then felt something sharp poke her roughly in the stomach. She opened her eyes and they focused on two pirates standing before her, pointing swords at her stomach.

She yelped as she jumped back and turned around. But she stopped when she came face to face with the tip of a sword. Her eyes crossed as she looked at the tip and she spun around again. As she did so, the pirate behind her put his hand over her mouth and grabbed her shoulder and led her away.

She didn't put up much of a fight because they were the ones with the pointy sharp objects, not her.

"Now, what's a pretty little thing like yerself doin' in an old, rat- infested cave like this? Hmm?" He whispered in her ear and the other pirates laughed along with him. He took his hand away from her mouth when he felt that she wasn't going to scream.

As she was dragged off towards the piles upon piles of gold in the spacious opening near by, she whimpered, "Oh my God, I'm doomed."

"Yes, love, yes ya are."

She was brought to the large opening that the Pearl pirates were standing in before she passed out. Her hands were then tied together by thick ropes that were bound tightly on her wrists. They were tied behind her back and she was forced to sit down on a large rock near the three pirates.

"Im hungry." She said. "Got any food?"

She should've known better than to ask pirates who were kinda sorta DEAD. But she didn't, and they laughed at her in response.

"Fine, fine, fine. I get the hint." She said as she sighed.

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Danielle was taken to the Pearl before the rest of the crew got there. She was immediately put into the brig, which was her room anyway, but this time she was very... upset... that she was put there. I guess she really was right that someting bad would come out of all of this.

"Get me out of here!!" She yelled. "Please! Someone?!? Anyone?!? PLEASE?!?"

The pirates locked the cell door and walked away, completely ignoring her ranting and raving.

The frown on her face was almost scary. She grunted as she sat down on the ground with her arms crossed over her chest. She was not a happy camper at the moment. But the bottom of her cell was becoming wet, and she didn't know why.

"Damnit!" she yelled as she stood up again.

She knew that Jack, Barbossa, and the rest of the crew of the Pearl would be coming back to the ship soon and so then Jack would be joining her in the brig for a short while. But then she also remembered that Jack escaped from the cell later on when the Interceptor and the Black Pearl were blasting the bejesus out of each other.

Her frown lessened slightly but she knew she would still have to stay in the brig for a while.

Danielle didn't have to wait long to hear the rest of the pirates board the Pearl. She heard their loud footsteps trail all over the ship and she knew Jack was among them.

She knew Jack would then go with Barbossa into Barbossa's cabin and talk and then the Pearl would catch up to the Interceptor and that's when Jack's butt would be thrown into the brig.

Danielle sat down again but this time she made herself comfortable on her dress, since it still was in the brig. She covered up her legs with the bottom half of the dress. She didn't get as wet this time but water still kept sloshing in. And since this was as comfortable as she was going to get, she leaned back and closed her eyes. That really nasty frown was still on her face, though. And she stayed like that for a while.

Since she never actually slept then, she heard the crew when they began to yell something about another ship. She peeked out a small hole no bigger than her thumb and she saw the Pearl catching up to the Interceptor. A devilish smile began to creep up on her. Not because she would be seeing Jack and Will soon or because she would be escaping, but because she would be witnessing the fight of a lifetime. Danielle was truly turning into a fun-loving pirate.

She turned back around and slouched, waiting... just waiting.

By the time Jack was brought to the cell, Danielle had balled the dress up and was sitting on it.

She watched as a really large, scary pirate forced him into the cell. "Apparently there's a leak." He said to the pirate as he walked away. Jack then looked around at the water that was filling the cell.

"Apparently." Danielle said sarcastically. The dress made a pretty large seat and her chin was now resting on her hands as she sat there.

Jack spun around in surprise. "You again." He said as he stared at her and smiled. He thought she looked like his little buddy Samantha, but he wasn't going to say anything to her.

"Yeah, me again." She paused for a moment. "So things didn't work out with Barbossa, eh? Well, the captain is an evil, abusive, monkey-loving moron, so don't expect anything but ignorance and selfishness from him."

Jack looked at her like she was crazy. "How did you know I was talking to him?"

"I know a lot of things." She said. "I know that we'll escape and in the end you'll get your ship." Danielle was staring at the opposite wall in a bored way but Jack, on the other hand, seemed a bit stupified.

"Just sit down. Relax. Enjoy yourself. It shouldn't be long." Danielle said, motioning to spot next to her on the big, comfy, slightly wet dress.

"Who are you?" Jack said as he sat down next to her.

"I'm Danielle. And there's no need to tell me your name. I already know who you are." Danielle said, smiling at him.

"Oh, right." He said.

So they sat there, waiting for the escape that Danielle said would come.

And let me tell you, they didn't have to wait long. A cannon blast created a large hole in the side of the ship and both Jack and Danielle flew off their seat and landed right in the water.

"Stop blowin' holes in my ship!" Jack cried out.

By the time Jack stood up, he realized that Danielle had already opened the cell door, of which the lock had been destroyed by the cannon blast.

"C'mon." She said. "We gotta go."

And so, without hesitation, they both made a mad dash out of the brig and up the stairs, which led to the deck of the Pearl that was now filled with fighting pirates and scallywags.

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Author's Note: Mery Christmas and Happy New Year my fellow pirate-lovers!